Since I have about three of these I would like to use at least one to record when customers come into my home. I work out of my house and have times when those that entered were scary to me and I didn't know if I were about to be robbed.
Also, this is a college town and I have a lot of young girls come to me for Macintosh service. My reputation is impeccable and I would like it to remain that way.
What would be the best programs to use that wouldn't burn a lot of hard drive space? I'm not that concerned about resolution. I would like to be able to hit my keyboard for recording to start and stop. There are programs that do this, but if you use your home as a client meeting site, I'd try getting one 'proper' IP camera and GeoVision. It's free NVR software if you buy their camera, it costs money if you use other company's cameras. Their cameras are overpriced, but not bad in quality.
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Their software is amazing and that they give it away for free if you use their cameras is a great deal. I'd recommend you set up motion detection so it is only recording when there is motion in a particular area, so it doesn't burn too much. Perhaps meet people in a specific area where the camera is set up, so it only records for a few minutes after it senses motion in your 'client area.' The sad reality with the systems where you click a button to start recording is that you won't hit the button when someone actually tries something, or may forget to, or may not be able to get to it to do that. I've had people try setups like these before and it doesn't end well.:( There are many programs out there that do this, but the video logging is very poor.
When you actually go to look through the logs, you find it is a miserable experience that you wouldn't wish on the very souls looking to rob you. Geovision lets you skip ahead to when there was motion.
Is a pretty cheap camera from them that will provide amazing quality and allow you to use their NVR software for free.
IP Camera Viewer 2 app allows to monitor and record video from up to 10 IP Cameras. It allows to easily setup recording video on schedule, or events only (Motion Detection). Once the cameras are setup for recording, you could quickly search recorded video and export incidents as movies or just images. Many popular cameras are supported: Axis, ACTi, Agasio, Anbash, Arecont, Airlink101, Basler, BlueJay, Bosch, Canon, CNB, Cisco, Compro, D-Link, Dericam, Digitus, Edimax, EyeSpy247, Foscam, hama, Hootoo, iCanTek, IPUX, Linksys, Loftek, Marmitek, Mobotix, Panasonic, Sony, Sanyo, Sharx, Solwise, StarDot, Tenvis, Toshiba, TP-Link, TRENDNet, Ubiquiti, Vivotek, VCS, Wanscam, Y-Cam, Zmodo and more. In addition, the generic camera types allow to support many other cameras: ONVIF-compatible cameras, RTSP and MJPEG Streams. Audio monitoring and recording is available for compatible cameras. Recording of video and detection of Motion is available for any camera model.
Let us know if you have a camera that is not supported yet, or if you need any other additions to the app. Your requests and feedback are welcome at [email protected]. F Bearden, Left for dead. I currently have 28 ip cameras that I monitor from my macbook pro. I originally had the ipcamera viewer software but they quit upgrading it with new camera profiles so I had to get the ipcamera viewer 2 software because I got a newer camera and they only supported it on the ipcamera viewer 2 software. Now I have another newer camera and its not supported on this software but supposedley it is on the ipcamera recorder software so your telling me I have to buy yet another version of your software to monitor my cameras and pay an additional fee for each camera even though I do not want to record from them? I will find another solution somewhere else.
Also, why does this software put such a strain on my cpu? I can view twice as many cameras on my ipad at the same time with no problem yet looking at the same cameras from my mac book pro with intel i7 sends my cpu usage over%120? I have sent multiple questions to the developer asking if they will upgrade the software to support newer cameras but have not recieved a reply. The developers must have left this app for dead.
No support, they dont return emails, and its beeen nearly a year since this app has had an update, its still at version 1.0! I do not reccomend anybody to by this software or any software from this developer until they change the way they do business.
Oh how I wish the developers of the live cams pro ios app would develop a mac app. F Bearden, Left for dead. I currently have 28 ip cameras that I monitor from my macbook pro. I originally had the ipcamera viewer software but they quit upgrading it with new camera profiles so I had to get the ipcamera viewer 2 software because I got a newer camera and they only supported it on the ipcamera viewer 2 software. Now I have another newer camera and its not supported on this software but supposedley it is on the ipcamera recorder software so your telling me I have to buy yet another version of your software to monitor my cameras and pay an additional fee for each camera even though I do not want to record from them? I will find another solution somewhere else.
Also, why does this software put such a strain on my cpu? I can view twice as many cameras on my ipad at the same time with no problem yet looking at the same cameras from my mac book pro with intel i7 sends my cpu usage over%120? I have sent multiple questions to the developer asking if they will upgrade the software to support newer cameras but have not recieved a reply. The developers must have left this app for dead.
No support, they dont return emails, and its beeen nearly a year since this app has had an update, its still at version 1.0! I do not reccomend anybody to by this software or any software from this developer until they change the way they do business. Oh how I wish the developers of the live cams pro ios app would develop a mac app.
Brianbslp, Love this app on my iMac I love to pull this app up when I'm on my iMac and see all my cameras. I have many different cameras like Foscam/D-link/Agasio which all work and the pan/tilt work with them too. However, I recently got a Tenvis 2013 and this camera caused a major issue with this software as it would continue to attempt to bring up an image and I would have to Force Quit the program. I contacted DComplex and they responded immediately with a recommendation and are attempting to fix this problem.
Even with this minor issue for me I would purchase this application again and again. The only other wish I might have is to be able to add some public WebCams like our local traffic cams. Maybe you can already do this I just haven't figured it out yet. Brianbslp, Love this app on my iMac I love to pull this app up when I'm on my iMac and see all my cameras.
I have many different cameras like Foscam/D-link/Agasio which all work and the pan/tilt work with them too. However, I recently got a Tenvis 2013 and this camera caused a major issue with this software as it would continue to attempt to bring up an image and I would have to Force Quit the program. I contacted DComplex and they responded immediately with a recommendation and are attempting to fix this problem. Even with this minor issue for me I would purchase this application again and again. The only other wish I might have is to be able to add some public WebCams like our local traffic cams. Maybe you can already do this I just haven't figured it out yet.
Traj, Just what I wanted I am using 2 cameras in my set up. The Axis was detected automatically by this app. The Trendnet camera was connected manually, but it was a simple process. I have both set up to record on motion and with face detection. That whole set up took 5 minutes at the most.
It is working flawlessly. This is a simple layout which is customizable to the amount of cameras you have. I paid the $1.99 to add the recording capability of my second camera.
It would be nice to have the ability to save the files to a location other than the Movies folder, especially since I have a huge external drive. Another want, is the ability to FTP an image, either during an event or at a set interval. I'm looking forward to how this will improve.
Traj, Just what I wanted I am using 2 cameras in my set up. The Axis was detected automatically by this app. The Trendnet camera was connected manually, but it was a simple process. I have both set up to record on motion and with face detection.
That whole set up took 5 minutes at the most. It is working flawlessly. This is a simple layout which is customizable to the amount of cameras you have.
I paid the $1.99 to add the recording capability of my second camera. It would be nice to have the ability to save the files to a location other than the Movies folder, especially since I have a huge external drive.
Another want, is the ability to FTP an image, either during an event or at a set interval. I'm looking forward to how this will improve.